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[kemper mentor]

Kemper wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/149737 :

<< 'theater' which seems light, frivolous, and gay >>



  Catlady responded:
  Thus you view something which started as a serious religious ritual 
to directly replace (by acting it out instead of doing it) an earlier
ritual that involved human sacrifice by being torn to bits,
cannibalism, and a sexual orgy. There's a reason Dionysus is the god
of theater.
   
  Kemper now:
  I know that cannibalism is attributed to that sect, but I have difficult believing that claim as most, if not all, western cultures (past and present) view cannibalism as taboo.  I believe most cannibalism that occurred at the time can be attributed to famine.  Then why, one might ask, is cannibalism attributed to Dionysus?  Answer: the conservative hedonist haters spun a web of lies so their sheep wouldn’t stray from the flock.  These hateful shepherds don’t want to lose even one valued member of the flock, not because of any altruistic reasons but because of the value (capital wealth, not spiritual investment) of that sheep: meat, milk and wool.  
   
  As for the claim of human sacrifices, I question that for similar reasons.   Which isn’t to say that humans weren’t slain for disrespecting the god.  
   
  I also have a hard time believing sexual orgy as a spiritual rite.  That seems like participating porn and porn is, if not light, then heavy, frivolous and gay, sometimes.  And that’s theater.
   
  -Kemper

		
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